Thursday, 11/17/16
In the Gospel Jesus foretold the destruction of Jerusalem.
Simon, one of the twelve Apostles, had belongesd to a Jewish
independence party known as the Zealots. Thirty years further on, the Zealots
became terrorists know as the Siccari,
because they ambushed Roman patrols, killing them off with short siccas, or daggers.
After those raids the Siccari would go into hiding deep in Jerusalem. Exasperated with them, the Roman Senate commissioned General Vespasian to destroy the whole city along with the Siccaris.
After those raids the Siccari would go into hiding deep in Jerusalem. Exasperated with them, the Roman Senate commissioned General Vespasian to destroy the whole city along with the Siccaris.
Vespasian set up catapults to hurl fire balls into the city, ad
he tunneled down to cut off all Jerusalem’s water supply. In the year 69
General Vespasian was elected emperor, so he turned the destruction of the city
and the temple to his son General Titus.
Jesus prophesied how it would be in the year 70, “Jerusalem, They will smash you to the ground
and your children within you, and thy will not leave one stone upon another.”
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